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So, a football player at Utah State in 2015 is accused of sexual assault by four different women, none of whom knew one another, three of them are USU students. The assaults are reported to the Logan City Police Department and three of them, because they are students, are reported to school officials. And that football player misses not one game during the 2015 season?

Add this question to that one: What the hell is going on in Logan?

And this one: How can those kinds of accusations be made without someone taking strong action to get to the bottom of what happened, instead of waiting for The Tribune to report the claims in a news story before starting a full review of the cases?

Something doesn't line up here. It does, though, line up with similar cases that have occurred at other schools and other football programs, the most recent of which is at Baylor, where football players' shameful actions of assault on women were not properly acted upon by officials inside and outside of the athletics department at the school.

Contrast the inaction at Utah State with what occurred on Thursday when it became known that Torrey Green — an Aggie linebacker who graduated after the 2015 season and signed a free-agent contract with the Atlanta Falcons — was identified as the accused perpetrator of the assaults. Not only did the Falcons quickly waive Green, but team owner Arthur Blank told media in Atlanta the following: "We don't want anyone connected to the organization who has those kinds of accusations around them."

Utah State, at least before and during the season, was far more accommodating to Green. He played in all 13 games, even after the assault claims were made.

Absolute conclusions drawn here regarding Green's behavior will have to wait, and they should until all the information is made known. The Tribune has, through GRAMA requests, asked for emails that were sent among school officials that mention Green over a span of years But the questions will and should be asked about what exactly took place during the alleged assaults, who knew about what took place and when, and what actions — or lack of — were and should have been taken as a result.

Head coach Matt Wells said Thursday, during the Aggies' media day, that he did not know about the allegations "until very recently."

Last month, during an interview with The Tribune, Green denied the allegations. He said the school talked to him about one of the incidents. He said everybody makes mistakes.

"This isn't just Salt Lake, this isn't just Logan, this isn't just Utah," he said. "The whole U.S. is about to hear about something that's blown out of proportion basically and that's going to ruin a young man's career."

The four women who made the claims do not think what happened to them was "blown out of proportion." The three students went to Utah State's Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information office, which provides counseling, before going to police. Logan police Detective Kendall Olsen handled the cases. In two of them, deputy Cache County Attorney Barb Lachmar did a review and did not file charges.

After The Tribune called Lachmar for comment last month, she asked the detective to send her all four cases for another review.

One of the alleged victims told Tribune reporter Alex Stuckey: "The football team definitely gets slaps on the wrists and they often don't look at rape as breaking the law; they look at it as an inconvenience to the team."

I don't know who knew what, when they knew it, what kind of influence was used in these cases, what kind of proper or improper judgments were being made. All I know is that Green played in those 13 games last season, after and while sexual assault accusations were being made against him by four different women who did not know one another.

Nothing punitive was handed down by police or a deputy county attorney or anybody at the school, inside or outside of the football team and the athletics department.

The Falcons, on the other hand, dropped Green immediately.

Conclusions can wait a bit longer. But more questions, better questions, and more answers, maybe better answers, need to be found here.

Too often sports gets tangled up with an absence of justice, priorities get confused, justice is left undone, especially when it comes to violence against women committed by athletes. Accusations must be seriously and thoroughly reviewed the first time around, without pressure from anyone with a rooting interest or a win/loss record on the line, and not just after the story goes public.

That would serve you, me, the alleged victims, the accused, the innocent, the guilty, the suspicious, the gullible, the school, the football team, the Atlanta Falcons. Everybody.

GORDON MONSON hosts "The Big Show" with Spence Checketts weekdays from 3-7 p.m. on 97.5 FM and 1280 AM The Zone. Twitter: @GordonMonson.